Opinion / 'We don’t know how to teach our students to write': NAPLAN Writing exposes the truth
School news / More excellence, less perfection: unrealistic standards hinder achievement
Opinion / 'Dangerously reductive': English teachers cannot take sole responsibility for teaching writing
Feature / Australian anti-bullying program finding success around the world
School news / Doing parent engagement well: Qld schools share novel success stories
School news / Providers sought for te reo Māori programme national rollout
School news / PhD research explores the effect of social media on teenagers' development
School news / Haileybury looks to acquire Xavier College campus
School news / NSW schools to enjoy country's best internet with planned upgrade
School news / Disability Royal commission: People living with disability paint a bleak picture of education exclusion and neglect
School news / Class of 2020 start COVID-safe NSW HSC
School news / Long-term effects of excessive teacher workloads revealed
School news / 'Extreme' hair: ex-student campaigns against 'racist' private school grooming...

As Black Lives Matter protests captured the world’s attention, closer to home, one man began to consider his own school experience within the context of the movement.
Opinion / 3 steps to integrate quality research evidence into your teaching practice
Opinion / We must move on: the ATAR is an outdated means of collecting human data

News

School news / Doing parent engagement well: Qld schools share novel success stories

Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) have highlighted several recent school-based research projects at an event in Brisbane this week.
School news / Providers sought for te reo Māori programme national rollout

The Ministry of Education is seeking providers to help roll out a nationwide programme to increase the te reo Māori capability of the education workforce.
School news / PhD research explores the effect of social media on teenagers' development

A Melbourne University PhD candidate is diving deep into teenagers’ social media use.

Leadership

Leadership / 'Students are our moral compass': award-winning NT principal shares leadership tips

Primary school principal Jacklyn Roberts says her life changed almost four years ago when she visited Canada's Alert Bay, a small village northeast of Vancouver, on a study tour examining school leadership and improvement.
Leadership / Baringa principal relishing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Imagine having the opportunity to be the foundation principal of a brand new $127 million high school on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Leadership / Paring back PD: 'sink or swim' remote learning taught us to really meet teachers' needs

There have been many silver linings to the enforced remote learning experience, one being the shift in how we prioritise an approach to professional learning that truly meets the immediate needs of our students and our teachers.

Professional development

Professional development / How do schools handle the disconnect in their risk management?

Why are schools so challenged by risk management? This is something I’ve been noticing a lot lately and whilst risk management in schools has never been strong, because it doesn’t form part of a teacher’s training, the fact that it’s so important baffles me as to the lack of attention given to it.
Professional development / New culturally responsive pedagogy course cuts through limiting fears

Every learner that enters the classroom comes with a virtual school bag crammed with a potent assortment of rich knowledge, religious identities and spiritual understandings – and they shouldn’t have to discard this toolkit at the school gate, Dylan Chown believes.
Professional development / Why do all educators need risk management training?

OK, before you fall asleep with the thought of two days of risk management training, hear me out!

Opinion

Opinion / We're in a global classroom: unpacking the tragic teacher beheading in Paris

I felt gut-punched when I heard about the high school history teacher decapitated in Paris last week.
Opinion / Camping isn't meant to be fun: building students' character in the great outdoors

The COVID-19 crisis has brought about a strange side effect in the UK, people who would normally be holidaying in a warm and dry foreign country have been forced to stay at home and have decided the safest holidaying alternative is to go camping, resulting in thousands of brand new, but abandoned...
Opinion / Looking beyond a quick fix: why we should use student behaviour as feedback

As you read this article, don’t think for a minute that I’m shifting the responsibility for poor student behaviour away from the student.

Technology

Technology / Class of 2020's innovative teaching skillset

A cohort of final-year teaching students are getting a dynamic education in online teaching and learning, including during their final school placements.
Technology / Meet the Auckland principal working to close the digital divide

Over many decades as an educator, Russell Burt, principal at Point England School, has seen the impact of 'bringing the world' to low-decile students using digital technology. But as he explained to EducationHQ, it's about more than just technology: it's about social equity, too.
Technology / Cutting edge 'CAVE2' facility an immersive learning experience

In his quest to bring “chemistry to life”, teaching innovator Chris Buswell has developed an immersive experience that extends far beyond test tubes and Bunsen burners.